European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 31,1989 the stars and stripes page5 Sov of space photos show new thinking by Williamj. . Times news service government and private experts who Analyse close up photographs of the Earth sold by the soviet Union have concluded that they were taken by satellites placed in orbit for military spying rather than scientific research. American experts said that sales of the photos came As a Surprise because soviet military space operations were normally kept secret and that the development shows that such aspects of the soviet military were undergoing rapid change. This is really new thinking said or. Peter , a physicist and senior analyst at the Carnegie endowment for International peace i Washington who Heads an Effort to Analyse the Pho tos. I did t think they d make pictures available that had been used for military  indeed an american company that markets the soviet photos said recently that photographs from yet another satellite camera Are being declassified and will be put up for Sale. Such developments have fuelled debate Over whether the american military should follow suit and release some of its own secret reconnaissance photos. There is Little concern that the soviet photos give away important american military secrets. Expert said the photos Are apparently not recent enough or detailed enough to threaten National Security. The Best of the soviet pictures revealed objects on the Earth As Small As 5 meters about the length of a full sized car. In contrast the world s next Best civil satellite the French spot system can show objects Down to 10 meters and the american landsat satellite Downto 30 meters. Sophisticated spy satellites Are said to be Able Tosee objects As Small As a baseball. When the photos first appeared for Sale in the West two years ago it was Clear that they were the sharpest pictures of the Earth commercially Avail Able from space. But their source remained a mystery. The photos could have come from new space Cam eras lofted for the purpose of generating commercial sales or might have been part of the soviet Union extensive series1 of scientific satellites used for crop forecasting ice monitoring Mineral prospecting an map making. Two Western satellites spot and landsat primarily serve such functions although some Pri vate Western groups use photos from space to an Alyze soviet military strength. The soviet group marketing the photos is soyuz Karta a foreign Trade organization that in 1987began Selling the West a variety of space photo graphs with varying Powers of magnification but i did not spell out their origin. A tentative link to the soviet military was seen inthe sheer Sharpness of the Best of the photos which were taken with a camera the soviets Call the Kfa-1000. A More telling clue came during the past year Orso As Federal and private experts mapped out areas of the United states photographed by the Kfa-1000camera and listed in a Catalon supplied by soyuz Kar to which said More extensive photography of the United states was in Progress. To Date Only a Small fraction of the country has been released. Scientists at the . Geological Survey other fed eral agencies and private groups found that Many of the photographs were of areas that contained Sensi Tive military installations. There was a High concentration of Good photog Raphy of important defense Sites said Arthur m. Dula a Houston lawyer and president of the Spac Commerce corp., which markets soviet space serv ices and once considered Selling the photos. The missile Fields in North Dakota Are covered great Dula said. The submarine pens near Seattle Are great. There Are tank factories test Sites you name  latin America awaits Quayle visit Washington a vice presi Dent Dan Quayle embarking wednesday on the new administration s first Diplo Matic Mission is expected to be watched closely by foreign leaders looking for Sig nals from the new White House. The vice president s trip to Venezuela and Al Salvador will be his first Chance to perform on the International Stag since his Elevation from Junior senator from Indiana. Twenty two Heads of states Are expected to be with Quayle in Caracas thursday for the inauguration of Carl Sandres Perez As president. Quayle is expected to conduct bilateral meetings with about 10 presi dents including one from Central Amer Ica and up to five from South America an administration official said. How he presents himself and the style with which he represents the unite states will be As much a measure of his Success As anything said the official. It is important symbolically in that it is one of the More important meetings of latin american leaders in the last 10 years the official said. Quayle whose chief legislative accomplishment was a Job training Bill has been closeted in hours of briefings with state department and National Security Council officials and others familiar wit the Region. Officials said no diplomatic breakthroughs would be expected of Quayle but his Mission would be to show presi Dent Bush s concern for the Region s eco nomic and social problems. World leaders also will be watching to see what they can expect in the Way of policy from Bush. They re All waiting with bated breath to see what signals he will Send on such issues As the debt crisis and the Contr War in Nicaragua said one administration official. Quayle will meet officials grappling with an array of problems debt latin american countries owe More than $440 billion of the $1.3 tril lion of third world debt. Brazil Mexico and Argentina Are the biggest third world debtors with much of the Money owed to . Banks. Bush has not outlined a definitive pol icy on Central american debt. Peace talks the Central american presidents Are expected to emerge from Caracas with a Date to resume their talks to further the regional peace plan offered by Costa rican president Oscar  also has not outlined any specific policy on the contras. Midsize cities hot Newsweek says new York a midsize Citi Eslow in crime and smog but High in affordable housing and Good jobs Are becom ing the new hot cities among Ameri cans the latest edition of Newsweek says. More americans will Migrate to theses called second tier cities that offer the Best of big City living said authorities quoted in the news Magazine s  6 edition. Given the Choice most people Don t want to live in the los Ange Jeses Chi Cagos and new Yorks Urbarri Logist Harvey Jacobs of the University of wis Consin told the Magazine. The cities on the list were once consid ered ugly ducking but their relative Lack of crime and other Urban headache combined with their growing cultural awareness make them Good places Tolive the Magazine said. " St. Paul minn., Long overshadowed bits twin City Minneapolis is now consid ered the better half of the two cities the Story said. Fort Worth Texas in the Shadow of Dallas has survived the Oil bust better than its sister City the mag Azine said. Newsweek listed eight other cities meeting the description of More liveable second tier cities Providence . Port land Ore Sacramento Calif. Albu Quer a que . Birmingham Ala. Charlotte . Columbus Ohio and Orlando Fla. Swaggart stripper had a son Magazine says new York a a Louisiana strip per had a six month sexual relationship with evangelist Jimmy Swaggart at the same time he allegedly was involved with a prostitute a men s Magazine reported. Penthouse Magazine in its March Issue said Swaggart sought out Catherine Mary Kampen a homemaker and performer of striptease telegrams promising to help her financially while demanding she perform sexual acts for him. Swaggart s attorneys told the Magazine Kampen s allegations were untrue and that she fabricated the account. Phillip a. Witt Mann an attorney for Swaggart said the evangelist will sue Penthouse. The Magazine said Swaggart approached Kampen at a Roadside Telephone in july 1987 and said he could help her with her marriage and personal life. Kampen told the Magazine that she and Swaggart never had sexual Intercourse Dur ing the course of their relationship. She told Penthouse she wondered if Swaggart wanted to have Intercourse with her so she asked him. Arid he said of sure but that would be cheating. What we re doing Here is just playing it s fun and games it s not cheating. You understand that Don t you " Kampen quoted Swaggart As say ing. Over the course of their relationship she said Swaggart made her perform explicit sex acts while he watched an allegation also made about him by a prostitute Debra Murphree whom Swaggart allegedly was seeing at the same time. Requested sex with Kampen s 13-year-old daughter but Kampen refused. Swaggart confessed on his television show in february of 1988 that he had  Kampen said in the Penthouse article she thought he was talking about her but Murphree said he was referring to  s alleged Liaison with Murphree was uncovered by a rival evangelist. Swaggart was defrocked by the Assem Blies of god in april 1988 because he disobeyed t the pentecostal denomination s order that he not preach for a year instead returning to the pulpit three months later. Navy salvages free destroyer run aground Mayport Fla. A Navy Sal Vage teams managed to re float the de Stroyer spruance after the ship had been aground for three Days near a bahamian Island officials said. The ship whose Home port is naval Sta Tion Mayport Fla., ran aground wednes Day off Andros Island 150 Miles Southeast of Miami during a training operation. No one was injured and the spruance s Crew remained aboard the vessel. It took the combination of two Succes Sive High tides and the steady tugging of two ships to free the destroyer said . Tim Taylor of the Mayport base. The  grasp was really the Mai player in this drama Taylor said Sun Day. The Salvage ship and the Mohawk an Ocean going tug pulled the 563-foot spruance free about Midnight saturday. Navy divers inspected spruance s Hull sunday. They confirmed the Hull is in tact Taylor said. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan. 31, 1949 the five month old paraguayan government of president j. Natalicio Gonzales was overthrown when members of the Cabinet led by Interior minister liberate Rodriguez seized Power in a bloodless coup. 30 years ago today. Jan. 31, 1959 sen. Theodore , d-., 91, the oldest member of the Senate asked to be relieved of his chairmanship of the Senate foreign re lations committee because of failing Eye sight and hearing. 20 years ago today. Jan. 31, 1969 alarmed at heavy trading volume particularly the Sharp Rise in speculating on Oil and mining shares the american Stock Exchange asked member firms to put on the brakes. 10 years ago today. Jan. 31, 1979 Jon Voight and Jane Fonda won Golden Globe awards for Best dramatic actor and actress of 1978 for their portrayals in the film coming